H. P. Lovecraft wrote a couplet echoing this text's namesake AABA rhyming scheme. In one famous translation, it describes an argument between "Doctor and Saint" about "the Two Worlds." This text exhorts the reader to be happy drinking wine and rejects "houris, palaces, Heaven and Hell" as fairy tales. In a translation by Edward Fitzgerald, one line declares "the Moving Finger writes: and, having w
H. P. Lovecraft wrote a couplet echoing this text's namesake AABA rhyming scheme. In one famous translation, it describes an argument between "Doctor and Saint" about "the Two Worlds." This text exhorts the reader to be happy drinking wine and rejects "houris, palaces, Heaven and Hell" as fairy tales. In a translation by Edward Fitzgerald, one line declares "the Moving Finger writes: and, having writ, / moves on..." and another compares paradise to "a jug of wine, a loaf of bread--and thou." For 10 points, name this set of quatrains by the Persian polymath Omar Khayyam.
H. P. Lovecraft wrote a couplet echoing this text's namesake AABA rhyming scheme.
{Rubaiyat} of Omar Khayyam